Disappearing War : : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post 9/11 World /

Disappearing War : : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post 9/11 World / / Christina Hellmich, Lisa Purse.

Illuminates the extent to which people, images and experiences are erased from cultural representations of contemporary warfareThe battles fought in the name of the 'war on terror' have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those geographicall...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
VerfasserIn:
Hellmich, Christina,
Purse, Lisa,
MitwirkendeR:
Auchter, Jessica,
Burgoyne, Robert,
Chaudhuri, Shohini,
Goldstein, Cora Sol,
Gregory, Thomas,
Harris, Janet,
Harvey, James,
Hellmich, Christina,
Piotrowska, Agnieszka,
Purse, Lisa,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 25 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction: Cinema and the Epistemology of War
  • 2. Good Kill? US Soldiers and the Killing of Civilians in American Film
  • 3. '5,000 feet is the best': Drone Warfare, Targets and Paul Virilio's 'Accident'
  • 4. Post-heroic War/ The Body at Risk
  • 5. Disappearing Bodies: Visualising the Maywand District Murders
  • 6. The Unknowable Soldier: Ethical Erasure in The Master's Facial Close-ups
  • 7. Visible Dead Bodies and the Technologies of Erasure in the War on Terror
  • 8. Ambiguity, Ambivalence and Absence in Zero Dark Thirty
  • 9. Invisible War: Broadcast Television Documentary and Iraq
  • 10. Nine Cinematic Devices for Staging (In)visible War and the (Vanishing) Colonial Present
  • 11. Afterword: Refl ections on Knowing War
  • Index

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